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Brian Cooksey, an engineer at Zapier, provides…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Brian Cooksey, an engineer at Zapier, provides a fine introduction to GraphQL and other Graph API implementations. He also points out that REST APIs aren't going anywhere, and it's nice to know about the pros and cons of other options. There…

A review of Bylines for multi-author and guest-author posts

Dan Knauss

September 29, 2017

WordPress News

Meet the successor to Co-Authors Plus. It's for multiple authors and guest authors in WordPress without creating additional user accounts.

Facebook relicensure of React and where that leaves WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

After Matt Mullenweg blogged about the decision to ditch React for Gutenberg and core WordPress development, Facebook pulled an about face and changed the license. It was a shocking move, and some suspect WordPress's decision was an impetus for the…

You may have already read Matt…

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2017

You may have already read Matt Mullenweg's blog post outlining the decision to take React off the table for inclusion with WordPress core and related large-scale projects like Gutenberg. This is one of the bigger decisions in our space for…

This lengthy and detailed post from…

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2017

This lengthy and detailed post from Dumitru Brinzan covers his frustrations with theme reviews. Dumitru focuses on the ranking algorithm for "Popular Themes" in the WordPress theme repo, especially what he calls its main weakness — name policing.

Brad Touesnard shares how to create…

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2017

Brad Touesnard shares how to create your own SSL Certificate Authority. Think Let’s Encrypt, Amazon, and Verisign for local HTTPS development.

Siobhan McKeown has authored A Life…

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2017

Siobhan McKeown has authored A Life Lived Remotely, which is about her journey with remote work. It's available for pre-order on Amazon now. Siobhan is the Events Director at Human Made. She is also one of the authors of Milestones: The Story of…

Jesse Watson, Software Development Manager at…

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2017

Business

Jesse Watson, Software Development Manager at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies, explores what makes software development "hard." One of his sources claims that over 40% of software projects fail! The insight Jesse draws from all this failure is expressed in the "One Skull Rule."…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released…

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2017

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released its annual Who Has Your Back? report. It's natural to feel a sense of pride that WordPress.com got a perfect score. EFF awarded stars for following industry-wide best practices, fighting for user privacy, and…

The EFF also pulled out of…

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2017

The EFF also pulled out of the W3C, in what seems a response to the W3C's support of Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), and specifically the implementation of DRM in the HTML working group; though I can't tell for certain. John…

Matt Mullenweg posted a summary of…

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2017

Matt Mullenweg posted a summary of his thoughts on Gutenberg on his personal blog. He says, "Gutenberg moves every part of the WordPress ecosystem forward," and goes on to touch on various ways developers, agencies, plugin developers, theme developers, web…

Plugin authors can now specify a…

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2017

Plugin authors can now specify a minimum required PHP version for their plugin with a new "Requires PHP" in the readme.txt file. As Sergey Biryukov states, this is an effort for WordPress "to move forward and encourage people to use…

Jonny Harris explains the importance of…

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2017

Jonny Harris explains the importance of site meta for WordPress multisite. Originally proposed by John James Jacoby, Jonny states it's the, "key building block for the future of multisite." This will make it easier for developers to extend multisite and…

Daniel Bachhuber announced a beta period…

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2017

Hosting

Daniel Bachhuber announced a beta period for distributed host testing, a framework for any hosting company to run the WordPress the PHPUnit test suite on their infrastructure, and then report the results back to WordPress.org. SiteGround and WP Engine are…

The importance of automated updates for all the things

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2017

I logged into my personal site today. It was the first time in a while. I realized while doing so that I haven't blogged much on that site this year. As soon as I logged in, I was confronted with…